A new environmental lawsuit puts a spotlight on what critics describe as Ohio’s dangerous love affair with fracking, highlighting how the state’s permissive regulations have allowed toxic waste to be stored in injection wells without adequate safeguards for drinking water.
The Buckeye Environmental Network has filed suit against the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) over two injection wells near Marietta in the southeast part of the state where fracking waste is stored. The lawsuit says Ohio approved the wells using outdated, less stringent rules despite newer standards being in place for years.
“It’s so frightening how many of these injection wells we have in Ohio, they’re just time bombs waiting for the earth to move a little bit for this stuff to migrate,” said Chris Quinn on Today in Ohio Thursday. “I can’t believe how much we’ve ransomed the future to get some natural gas out of the ground.”…